Steel Chairs

**Impeccable** · 06-27-2009, 04:26 PM

Does anyone know where the idea of folding steel chairs as weapons came from? Is it a WWF/WWE thing, or were they being used long before then?

Was there another "weapon of choice" before steel chairs?

**The Mackem** · 06-29-2009, 10:00 AM

Hardcore wrestling is normally credited to the likes of Abdullah the Butcher and The Shiek who first started using foreign objects in their current form in the 50's I think. The chair was in amongst those first weapons used, I read something about this a while back, I'll try and find it.

**NeanderCarl** · 07-17-2009, 03:46 PM

If you're wondering why, specifically, they use a chair, those folding chairs were about the only weapon to hand back in the days before garbage wrestling, and toys under the ring etc. An arena set up was a ring, a timekeeper table, a couple of ringside folding chairs for officials, and then a whole bunch of folding chairs for spectators.

Long before the likes of Randy Savage and Terry Funk started popularising the use of the table as a weapon, it was only really chairs and the ringbell to hand.

**Lock Jaw** · 07-17-2009, 04:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Impeccable

Was there another "weapon of choice" before steel chairs?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs

06-29-2009, 10:00 AM	#2
The Mackem VG + Q&A FORUM REPRESENT Posts: 38,940	Hardcore wrestling is normally credited to the likes of Abdullah the Butcher and The Shiek who first started using foreign objects in their current form in the 50's I think. The chair was in amongst those first weapons used, I read something about this a while back, I'll try and find it.

07-17-2009, 03:46 PM	#3
NeanderCarl That's Not My Name Posts: 9,086	If you're wondering why, specifically, they use a chair, those folding chairs were about the only weapon to hand back in the days before garbage wrestling, and toys under the ring etc. An arena set up was a ring, a timekeeper table, a couple of ringside folding chairs for officials, and then a whole bunch of folding chairs for spectators. Long before the likes of Randy Savage and Terry Funk started popularising the use of the table as a weapon, it was only really chairs and the ringbell to hand.